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自力更生

zì lì gēng shēng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

自力更生 (zì lì gēng shēng) means "regeneration through one's own effort (idiom); self-reliance". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 自力更生 means

1. regeneration through one's own effort (idiom)
2. self-reliance

The characters in 自力更生

• 自zì(bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
• 力lìpower; force; strength
• 更gèngmore; even more; further
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

Where 自力更生 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zǐ–zǒu (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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